Federal agents from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security raided the Providence, Rhode Island, office of prominent immigration attorney Joseph Molina Flynn on Thursday.

The FBI raided the Rhode Island law offices of Central Falls Municipal Judge Joseph Molina Flynn on Thursday. (WPRI)

PROVIDENCE — FBI agents on Thursday searched a downtown Providence office building that includes the office of a Rhode Island immigration lawyer. Joseph Molina Flynn, who was also Municipal Court judge for Central Falls, resigned from the bench after the search, Central Falls Mayor Maria Rivera told the Globe.

PROVIDENCE – Central Falls Municipal Court Judge Joseph Molina Flynn has resigned his position with that city following the FBI’s raid of his downtown Providence offices on Thursday morning.

Central Falls municipal judge Joseph Molina Flynn abruptly resigned Thursday shortly after FBI agents raided his law offices in downtown Providence. Central Falls Mayor Maria Rivera confirmed the resignation,

Central Falls municipal judge Joseph Molina Flynn abruptly resigned Thursday shortly after FBI agents raided his law offices in downtown.

Federal agents marched boxes of files out of a Providence immigration lawyer’s office Thursday afternoon, hours after their raid inside an office building on Dorrance Street began. NBC 10 News observed agents from the FBI,

Agents from the FBI stormed a building on Dorrance Street in downtown Providence Thursday morning. The area houses the offices of Joseph Molina Flynn, a Rhode Island and Massachusetts immigration attorney and Central Falls municipal court judge.